Blessed.

It's funny how you have those moments during trials where it seems like that time will never pass but then when you look back of them you think, "why did I feel sorry for myself?"  Life is so good.  For a while at the beginning of the summer I felt useless because I didn't have a job but now I am working 12 hour shifts at the hospital!  I am so lucky to get the job I have for experience and for the satisfaction of helping people when they are recovering from surgery and other illnesses.  I have met so many talented health care workers who I can learn so much from.  I am so lucky to have a husband who is always so positive even when people around him are not.  I think that's what I have always admired most about him.  I hope to always choose to embrace positivity the way he does.  I look around me at work and see people with tragic lifestyles that are sometimes out of their control but other times self inflicted.  I wish I could help them come to the conclusion that "this will pass" but it's something overall they must learn for themselves.  All I can do at this moment is be grateful.  Grateful for my job, my family, my ability to get an education (and almost being done), and being poor but oh so happy and in love with the one I love.  I am blessed.